Spanish photographer Bego Antón (b. 1983) focuses on the relationship between people and animals – a complicated set of interactions that includes animals that we eat, collect or call pets. In this articlee, Antón talks about her latest series, Everybody Loves to ChaChaCha, that captures the playful love found within a New York community who spend their spare time dancing with man’s best friend.

It isn’t Michael Blake with Dance with Wolves that inspired Spanish photographer Bego Antón, but Sam Cook’s song Everybody Loves to Cha cha cha. From New York to Arizona, the photographer traveled across the United States to meet these men and women who practice the Musical Canine Freestyle.

They are called Barb & Rex, Laurie & Timber, Kath & Maisy, they form dance couples of a particular kind. In formal dress for the two protagonists, they jump, turn, advance back and forth, diagonally, footsteps in the legs of the other. Hours and training to achieve perfect osmosis. There’s no longer a teacher or pupils, no dog or human, but two bodies in symbiosis.